Publications by authors named "Shingo Hosoishi"

Article Synopsis
  • In Japan, there are nine species of ants in a specific genus, with five or more classified as tramp species.* -
  • A key for identifying the queens of these nine ant species is included, but one species is excluded due to the unavailability of a queen specimen.* -
  • The research re-establishes a connection between Bolton, 1977, and Forel, 1905 based on unique characteristics found in the queens of these ants.*
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The myrmicine species is one of the most widely distributed ants in Asia, but it has rarely been collected in the field. Its distribution range covers South and Southeast Asia, extending approximately 5,000 km from India in the west to Sulawesi in the east. Despite this wide distribution range, has been treated as a single taxonomic species, and no combined morphological or molecular analysis has been conducted to assess whether any intraspecific variation exists.

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To understand the complex relationships that exist between ant assemblages and their habitats, we performed a self-organizing map (SOM) analysis to clarify the interactions among ant diversity, spatial distribution, and land use types in Fukuoka City, Japan. A total of 52 species from 12 study sites with nine land use types were collected from 1998 to 2012. A SOM was used to classify the collected data into three clusters based on the similarities between the ant communities.

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